Standard of Living – Madison, Wisconsin

Imagine if you started a corporation that stole money from people in your community and called this taxation and hired employees to facilitate in stealing this money and spending it on themselves and then calling your employees “public servants”?  Does that sound like a good business plan?

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Tags: business plan, corporation, employees, government, money, steal, taxes, theft

Wisconsin has a terrible set of Congress critters.  Five of them were recently found guilty of voting to enslave children, elderly, and poor individuals to a decreased standard of living because of the inflation necessary to pay for the bailouts AND bonuses they authorized to AIG employees.  In the photo above, you see those that were forced to pay for AIG bailouts and bonuses setting up home outside of AIG headquarters because the inflation of the money supply has destroyed their savings and they can no longer afford shelter.  This is a sad truth of what is coming around the corner due five guilty Congress members in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Congress Members Found Guilty Of Voting Yes To Authorize AIG Bonuses:

1. Tammy Baldwin
2. Ronald Kind
3. Gwen Moore
4. Steve Kagen
5. David Obey

All five voted to make the children, elderly, and the poor of Wisconsin economic slaves to AIG by not giving them an option to to opt-out of the requirement to give a portion of their current and future incomes to AIG employees.  These individuals also were not given an option to opt-out of the increase in prices of food and shelter that will soon occur because of the increased printing of U.S. dollars out of thin air they authorized to pay for the AIG bonuses and bailout.  I’m sorry.  Why do these criminals in Congress vote yes to print bailout money out of thin air which destroys the value of current money saved and raises food and shelter costs for everyone?

I wonder if Ron Kind is going to give back all that money AIG gave him in 2008?  I bet that money they slid him was a good reason for him to approve all those AIG bonuses!

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Tammy Baldwin has created a monster that is going to destroy the poor, children and elderly in Wisconsin.  She voted to create an AIG zombie company.  A living dead company.  AIG would have gone bankrupt and went away on its own and not cost anyone a dime.  However, Tammy Baldwin is a predatory congressional legislator from Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District, and she voted to make the children and elderly of Wisconsin economic slaves to AIG by forcing them to pay cash payments and inflation costs to the wealthy on Wall Street working for and with AIG.

Tammy Baldwin is forcing Wisconsin’s elderly and children to a decreased standard of living because of the inflation and subsequent higher living costs that the printing of US dollars to fund her bailout to AIG has created.  Tammy Baldwin is also forcing Wisconsin’s elderly and children to pay current and future cash payments to AIG through taxes to cover the bailout borrowing and interest payments on the cash she authorized for her friends living on Wall Street.  If these children and elderly cannot pay their taxes or refuse to pay taxes because they feel that Wall Street has no right to their hard-earned cash, Tammy Baldwin knows that these individuals will be either incarcerated, or if they refuse to surrender, be violently apprehended by members of the police-state.  Tammy Baldwin is a despicable criminal for making sure that money is stolen from the poor, elderly and children living in Wisconsin.

In 2010, Tammy Baldwin will be replaced by Dr. Tim Nerenz in the 2nd Congressional District.  Tim’s latest remarks regarding a lot of the major problems created by government are enlightening.  The solutions are simple.  Check ‘em out here.

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Tags: 2nd congressional district, AIG, bailout, bonuses, children, elderly, jail, poor, prison, slavery, tammy baldwin, taxes, tim nerenz, wall street, wisconsin

If you are sick and tired of corporate welfare schemes and the companies that suck on the teats of the bloated and bankrupt U.S. federal government at your tax expense and then plan extravagant vacations and goodies for their employees, then now could not be a better time to unleash your anger—if you have an Associated Bank account!  Associated Bank sucked 1/2 billion dollars off the federal government’s teat by making taxpayers fund the entire loan.  Then they decided they needed to award 100 of their employees to an extravagant vacation in Puerto Rico.  Here’s a description of the lavish plans that were uncovered by Daniel Bice at the Journal Sentinel:

The high-performers at the Green Bay-based bank [Associated Bank] were scheduled to leave Wednesday and fly to the El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa, returning Feb. 22. The resort includes a 100-acre private island; 18-hole golf course, complete with waterfall; private marina; Parisian day spa; children’s water park; and 10,000-square-foot Caribbean casino.

Yeah, it’s time to close your bank account with this company and open an account with an ethical bank.  Here’s how:

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1.  Search the web or ask friends for a local bank that has not taken TARP/tax money (most local banks have not, except Associated Bank).

2.  Gather your driver’s license and some cash to start your new account (about $25).

3.  Drive to your new bank after finding directions, enter building and ask to see a bank associate to open a new account (say it with a smile!).

4.  The bank associate will ask why you want to open an account with them.  Tell them how angry you are at Associated Bank taking advantage of taxpayers (and that you are so glad your new bank has not!).

5.  Allow 1/2 hour for creating your new bank account.  Your driver’s license is the main document needed for this process.  You will need the $25 cash you brought to put into your new account and get it funded.  You should be all set up and ready to go!

6. I recommend that you don’t close your Associated Bank account until all your check and debit purchase activities clear that old account.  You will likely want to wait until after your next paycheck gets deposited into your new bank account.

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Please share your stories of happiness at closing your Associated Bank account.  I’ve already closed mine!!!

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Tags: Associated Banc-Corp, Associated Bank, Caribbean resort, CEO Paul Beideman, corporate welfare, Daniel Bice, El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa, Elaine Hokenson, federal bailout money, federal government, Janet Ford, Joanne Jalowiec, Journal Sentinel, No Quarter, public anger, Puerto Rico trip, TARP, taxes, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Wells Fargo

The real question is, “Who is hurt by the Wisconsin state budget shortfall?” The answer is anyone that depends on this monopoly known as the state.  From the Wisconsin State Journal in an article on Nov. 15th titled, “Who’s to blame for state budget shortfall?“, here is a section of it:

“If Gov. Jim Doyle and Republican and Democratic lawmakers now find themselves in a $5 billion budget hole, it’s because they’ve all done part of the shoveling, budget experts said. At least $1.6 billion of the state’s massive budget shortfall stems from a spend-now, pay-later attitude pervasive in both political parties in the state Capitol, these analysts said.”

All politicians are faced with guaranteed termination within a few years of getting into office as re-elections are mandated. So these individuals know their time is short and they must spend all the money they can while they are in. These individuals are parasites that feed on the citizens’ money which was stolen through the corrupt practice of collecting involuntarily paid taxes.  I never consented to paying any taxes.  And if I don’t pay, I go directly to jail.  Taxes are involuntary.  Governor Jim Doyle is an example of a parasite. There are special interest groups he must feed.  There are campaign contributors that he must feed.  There are his close friends in Wisconsin communities that must receive special considerations.  He must receive name recognition now and in the future through grandiose schemes he must concoct funded by large sums of stolen tax money.  He must not care about costs.  He must not care about the future, he must only care about now.  There may be no next term for him.

The other problem is that these parasites continue to spread their tentacles into Wisconsin communities and the state apparatus becomes a monopoly over many of the services that are vital to citizens for their daily life.  The state parasites also snuff out any competition for services and thereby destroy jobs.  Trash collection, road maintenance, security services, schooling services, retirement planning, and on and on and on.  Instead of community individuals socially cooperating in the decentralized free markets to make arrangements for services that are sustainable, they rely on central planners like Jim Doyle and his gang to coordinate this.  However, the state is a monopoly that doesn’t produce anything in order to fund itself.  It relies on the only trick it has for funding—steal from taxpayers and enforce the theft with the guns and firepower of the police-state.  This dark practice comes to light though when tax revenues are down such as now.  What trick do central planners like Jim Doyle have now?  Nothing.  They can only hand out what they previously stole from others.  But as lucrative as their unethical game is they are faced with admitting that the game of theft and spend is a roller-coaster ride fraught with instability.  It’s not organic.  It’s artificial.  It’s a scheme not unlike the one Ponzi came up with.  In the end though it’s the citizens who have been depending on this central planning regime and its artificial scheme that are hurt the most.  Imagine the possibilities for improving our lives and making them sustainable if instead of funneling 1/3 of our income through central planning bureaucratic parasites we instead had an open market where multiple choices were available with much lower costs and better quality.  We would buy and sell services to and from community members that have a stake in their reputation and future with fellow individuals.  They aren’t here today and gone tomorrow.  Life would be much more stable in a downturn.  In an organic market system the only people out of a job would be the unproductive boobs in government now.

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Tags: central planners, Central Planning, jim doyle, parasite, retirement planning, road maintenance, schooling services, security services, Taxation, taxes, trash collection, wisconsin state budget